Super Aguri’s Friday idea – Super Aguri want to force teams to run at least one test driver on Fridays. I can see the advantage in that but my concern is that it would force teams to exclude one of their race drivers from Friday testing.

That can only lead to teams excluding the same driver from Friday testing for the entirety of a season, and in no time at all every team is subscribing to the ‘Team Schumacher’ approach where all the effort is put behind a single driver.

Fantastic news for US F1 fans! – American F1 fans welcome the news that the unpopular CBS channel will lose F1 coverage for four rounds of the season to Fox in 2007, the rest remaining on Speed. Fox will use Speed’s popular commentary team of Bob Varsha, David Hobbs, Steve Matchett and Peter Windsor.

When people talk about making F1 popular in the United States the importance of ensuring that American F1 TV coverage is up to scratch has perhaps been neglected. Especially as Fox will be broadcasting the two North American rounds (US and Canada) live.